Spine Surgeon Update

Well, I went for the appointment I've waiting for. I don't know how I feel about it. He was nice about it all, but I just, I don't know.

He took some xrays of my back, which I expected. He told me what was wrong with it, which I already knew about. He told me I have 5 choices for treating my back-

1. Live with it and deal with the pain
2. Epidural Injections
3. Neuropathic Medicines
4. Physical Therapy
5. Surgery

I've already done options 1, 2 and 3. I don't want to jump right into surgery. Yet, I don't want to wait months on end to see if it would help. I decided to try PT first. Maybe I'll get lucky. He did tell me that if I changed my mind at any point, to just call. They'll schedule my surgery without me having to come back in. Even if I changed my mind before I even made it home, I could call and do surgery.

The doctor did make me cry. God I felt like a fool for that. It just came out of no where, he wasn't even being mean. He asked to see my teeth and I fell apart lol. Just instantly. He really was being polite about it though. Said he just wanted to see how bad they were. Apparently bad teeth can cause back pain. I'm not making that connection, but whatever. He told me it would be a risk to do surgery without having my teeth fixed first. Having an infection or abscess in my teeth could travel to my spine and cause an infection in my back during surgery.

He didn't say he'd refuse to do the surgery. But that I needed to be aware of those risks.

As if I haven't tried getting them fixed. Last time I seen a dentist, he wanted $3000 up front before he would even do the first bit of work on my teeth. And that was only part of what it would cost.

I don't know, that's a whole other topic.